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Journal articles on the topic "Adopted children – Fiction"
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Khan Chaudhry, Mahmood Ali. "Note Child Labour - Facts and Fiction." LAHORE JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS 2, no. 2 (1997): 119–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.35536/lje.1997.v2.i2.a8.
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Child labour exists throughout the third world including Pakistan. For some unknown reason, the Western Press has chosen to single out Pakistan to decry the system. The May 1997 issue of the Readers’ Digest carried a particularly vicious article entitled `No Life for a Child’ giving harrowing tales of beatings and other forms of coercion to make little children in Pakistan to work in factories. Advantage is taken of the fact that there has been no census in the country for two decades to bloat the figures of child labour. One estimate going the rounds is 15 million. But the more popular figure is 8 million which both UNICEF and SAARC have adopted. ILO produced a figure of 6.3 million till, in 1996 it sponsored a survey which turned up the figure of 3.3 million. In a country with a population of 132 million, every man, woman and child of which is under a debt burden of about Rs 13,021 per annum the figure of 3.3 million labouring children should not take anyone by surprise. Not that this is any justification for child labour.
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Tropin, Tijana. "The relationship between Arthurian tradition and science fiction in Diana Wynne Jones's novel 'Hexwood'." Kultura, no. 168 (2020): 14–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/kultura2068014t.
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This paper analyses Diana Wynne Jones's use of the Arthurian tradition in her novel Hexwood and the links she establishes with the contemporary traditions of the fantasy novel for children and science fiction. By employing a complex non-linear narration and a rich network of intertextual allusions ranging from Thomas Mallory and Edmund Spenser to T. H. White, Wynne Jones creates an unusual and successful genre amalgam. The central concept of the novel, a version of virtual reality where individuals adopt false identities and act accordingly, enables a highly uncommon self aware use of motifs adopted from myth and literature.
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Adhuze, Dr Helen Idowu. "The Face And Phases Of Anthropomorphism In Children’s Literature." Tasambo Journal of Language, Literature, and Culture 1, no. 1 (2022): 47–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.36349/tjllc.2022.v01i01.006.
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Anthropomorphism, the imposition of human traits on nonhuman objects and animals, is an ancient tradition in the art of storytelling. Existing studies on anthropomorphism in literature have mostly focused on its being a satirical device in adult fiction but paid less attention to how anthropomorphism is constructed in literature for children. This study was executed to examine the depiction of anthropomorphism through folktales, modern fables, and digitales-in selected contemporary Nigerian prose narratives for children intending to establish the use of anthropomorphized characters to bring abstract concepts to life. Jean Piaget’s cognitive constructivism was adopted as the theoretical framework for the study. Five narratives were purposively selected because of their relevance to the study. The narratives were subjected to critical analyses. The face of anthropomorphism is revealed as a rhetorical tool through personification and metaphoric expressions. Anthropomorphism in children’s narratives serves as an attention grabber and a means of giving concrete information on learning through cognitive constructivism which is effective through a literature-based learning experience. In juvenile literature, anthropomorphism is used in building a relational attitude between the young readers and the fictional characters in the text for subtle facilitation of knowledge.
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Stewart, Matthew, Alexander Keightley, Anne Maguire, et al. "Investigating the Management of Carious Primary Teeth in General Dental Practice: An Overview of the Development and Conduct of the Fiction Trial." Primary Dental Journal 4, no. 4 (2015): 67–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1308/205016815816682146.
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The management of carious primary teeth is a challenge for patients, parents and clinicians. Most evidence supporting different management strategies originates from a specialist setting and therefore its relevance to the primary care setting is questionable. The UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Technology Assessment (HTA) has commissioned the FiCTION (Filling Children's Teeth: Indicated Or Not?) trial; a multi-centre primary dental care randomised controlled trial (RCT) to determine the most clinically and cost-effective approach to managing caries in the primary dentition in the UK. This large trial began in 2012, is due to be completed in late 2017 and involves 72 practices and 1,124 children initially aged three to seven years with dentine caries, following randomisation to one of three caries management strategies. Clinical, radiographic, quality of life, treatment acceptability and health economics data are collected during the three-year follow up period. This article provides an overview of the development and conduct of FiCTION and discusses some approaches adopted to manage challenges and achieve the patient recruitment target.
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Sen, Erhan, and Sedat Karagul. "A Study of Secondary School Students’ Perceptions of Fictional Characters." International Journal of Educational Methodology 7, no. 3 (2021): 433–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.12973/ijem.7.3.433.
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Fictional characters give literary works a sense of reality. The actions of fictional characters play a crucial role in children's personality development. Young readers who lack critical reading skills are more likely to incorporate fictional characters into their lives because they have a hard time telling reality from fiction. Therefore, we should determine how children perceive fictional characters and teach them that they are imaginary figures. In this way, we can help them approach those characters' actions from an external and critical perspective. This study adopted a qualitative research design (case study) to investigate secondary school students' perceptions of fictional characters. The sample consisted of 45 secondary school students (28 female and 17 male). Data were collected through interviews and document review techniques. Data were analyzed using content analysis. Results showed that participants were more likely to be interested in and identify with characters with appealing personality traits. They had four types of approaches to fictional characters: (1) Wanting to change the storyline depending on what the fictional character goes through, (2) being influenced by them, (3) seeing them as role models, or (4) ignoring them. They wanted to change the storyline, especially when the villain got what he wanted or when the hero or the victim was unhappy, suggesting that they mostly took the protagonist's side (the good guy). While most participants attributed an ontological meaning to anthropomorphic characters, the symbolic meaning became of secondary importance. They were more interested in and identified more with characters with good living conditions and no death experiences.</p>
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Dr. Shabbir Ahmad, Dr. Neelum Almas, and Muhammad Iqbal. "Illness, Care, Love and Today’s American Family: A Comparative Study of the Novels “Miss Janie’s Girls and Sula”." Research Journal of Social Sciences and Economics Review (RJSSER) 1, no. 4 (2020): 307–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.36902/rjsser-vol1-iss4-2020(307-313).
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This study examines how the novels Miss Janie’s Girls and Sula discussed the family life, illness, fight against pandemics, and need for care during a time of combatting the disease. This study has more importance in the context of the pandemic Covid-19 situation that laid stress on social distancing while the immediate demand of the patient is taking care of by the family members. This study establishes a link between fighting with a deadly disease and feminism, and for that, it brings a comparative analysis of the issues e.g. illness, care, love, and today’s American family from the 1970s to the 2020s selected fiction. The influence of changed living style on family relations, in contemporary American family life, with an emphasis on family love is underscored in facing the challenge of lethal diseases. However, this article concludes that the family also expands to the adopted children and fostered mothers.
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Simpson, Alyson. "Teaching with children's literature in initial teacher education: Developing equitable literacy pedagogy through talk about books." Journal of Literary Education, no. 4 (July 31, 2021): 172. http://dx.doi.org/10.7203/jle.4.21028.
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Teaching about children’s literature in pre-service teacher education is quite rare, even though research shows it is crucial for teachers to be good at teaching reading as well as being committed readers (Commeyras et al., 2003; Cremin et al., 2009). Emphasis on the reading process can sideline the importance of talking about quality literature to engage students in reading (Author, 2016). I have positioned the role of talk about books as a core part of our undergraduate degree. In this way, my pre-service teachers are alerted to the potential of the ‘fiction effect’ to improve equitable engagement with reading (Jerrim & Moss, 2019) for all students.
 
 The paper explores how an initial teacher education course in Australia partnered with local schools to create authentic interactions about children’s literature. A dialogic approach to learning (Alexander, 2020) was adopted to teach pre-service teachers to develop equitable literacy pedagogy informed by children's literature. During their education program the pre-service teachers received letters from school children who wrote about their reading preferences. The letters were discussed for evidence of reading habits and new books were sought as recommendations for children to read. Through considering their own reading identities pre-service teachers collectively developed their knowledge about children’s literature as they developed knowledge of literacy pedagogy. The development of habits of noticing (Simpson et al., 2020) through iterative discussion helped the pre-service teachers’ learn about their students, learn from their students, and encouraged them to take a more holistic view of the teaching of reading.
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Mashevskyi, O., and M. Baraboi. "THE QUEBEC NATIONAL QUESTION DURING THE WORLD WAR II AND IN THE POSTWAR PERIOD." Bulletin of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. History, no. 132 (2017): 28–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/1728-2640.2017.132.1.06.
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The paper deals with the Quebec national question during the Second World War and the postwar period in the context of the causes and preconditions of "Quiet Revolution" in 1960s in Quebec. Based on articles, memoirs, non-fiction literature, statements we analyze the views of the French-Canadian and the English-Canadian public and political figures on the crisis of conscription, as well as the impact of the crisis on the social and political situation in post-war Quebec. Particular attention is paid to an under-researched aspect in the historiography – to attempts of a reform in Quebec, in times of Adelard Godbout (1939 – 1944) as a prime-minister of Quebec. He was considered to be a precursor of the "quiet revolution" in 1960s. During his tenure in the Quebec government he adopted important laws on women suffrage, compulsory schooling of children from six years. It weakened the influence of foreign companies on the Quebec's economy. The Adelard Godbout's defeat in provincial elections in 1944 resulted in rise of a nationalist-conservative Maurice Duplessis. We thoroughly analyzed the post-war period in the history of Quebec, which is known as the "period of darkness" (1944 – 1959), when prime minister of Quebec Maurice Duplessis was elected on second term. The paper also focuses on the policy of the M. Duplessis's regime in Quebec, on how it contributed to further backlog in socio-economic development, which accelerated discontent of opposition which demanded major reforms. This discontent had become the catalyst of the "Quiet Revolution." The postwar period has transformed French-Canadian national question in Quebec. Basic issues during the government of M. Duplessis were not linguistic, religious or cultural ones. The main question was that of equality of the provinces in the federation and concerned expansion the autonomous rights of Quebec.
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Saunders, Bernadette J. "Words Matter: Textual Abuse of Childhood in the English-Speaking World, and the Role of Language in the Continuing Denial of Children’s Rights." International Journal of Children’s Rights 25, no. 2 (2017): 519–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15718182-02502010.
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This article focuses upon ‘the textual abuse of childhood in the English-speaking world’ (Saunders and Goddard, 2001). It highlights the significant role that the choice of words used to refer to children, and their experiences, plays in both the continued denial of children’s rights, and the perpetuation of children’s lesser status in relation to adults. The evolution in language apparent in international children’s rights documents is compared and contrasted with language adopted in some media articles, and in both fictional and academic literature, provoking thought about children and their experiences. Attention is particularly drawn to evidence of textual abuse in literature that ostensibly advocates for greater acknowledgement of each child as a person with human rights and an entitlement to dignity and respect. The author calls for a more critical awareness of language as a powerful influence on people’s attitudes and behaviours. It is argued that children occupy an ambivalent place in Western society – at once cherished, nurtured, precious and endearing, and yet ‘always othered’ (Lahman, 2008), and often belittled, subjugated, and subjected to ‘normalised’ violence as punishment for being a child. Children’s advocates ought to not only consciously adopt respectful and empowering written and spoken language in reference to children, they ought also to draw others’ attention to the potentially negative impact of ill-chosen or thoughtlessly adopted language. Fictional and academic literature, that thoughtfully and powerfully adopts language and expresses ideas that promote children’s rights, is recognised for its explicit and/or subliminal positive influence on children, adults and our future society.
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Pura, Rada, and Mușata Bocoș. "A Cross-Disciplinary Narrative Approach of Sandplay in Preschool Education." Educatia 21, no. 18 (May 21, 2020): 125–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/ed21.2020.18.13.
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Narrative is central for human beings and it is an instrument for organizing our entire experience. Personal, familial, organizational and national identity is being shaped by the narrative. It gives meaning to the world around us. Play is a specific tool that can be used to straighten young children’s narrative. A free, symbolic, creative play such as Sandplay can be adopted to maximize the opportunities of observing and sustaining preschoolers’ narrative. Dora M. Kalff is the founder of Sandplay Therapy, being influenced by "The World Technique" of Margaret Lowenfeld but playing with sand has always been attractive both to children and adults. In preschool educational settings telling stories in the sand offers educators a way of extending children’s narrative by using open questions, dialogues and by developing children’s awareness that story fictional world can be enriched.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Adopted children – Fiction"
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Burke, Andrew. "High Spirits - With an accompanying exegesis - Behind Dry Ink in Set Patterns." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2006. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2063.
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This thesis is in the form of a novel titled 'High Spirits' and an exegesis, 'Behind Dry Ink in Set Patterns'.
The novel traces the life of an Australian girl from birth to her mid-teens. Rose Sommers is adopted by a couple who have returned from prisoner-of-war camps in Singapore after World War II. Set in the early 1960s, the narrative starts with Rose at thirteen running away from the family farm to Perth. The novel has six flashbacks in the first third to tell the story of how the parents adopted and treated her: her adoptive mother was unbalanced and her adoptive father was a weak man.
When she arrives in Perth, the buildings and crowded streets terrify Rose, so she runs straight through to bushland in Kings Park. There she teams up with Bela, a Hungarian refugee-and from there she is on her own. Through periods of great deprivation, including drug addiction and the birth of two children, Rose is in constant battle with the law and bureaucracy. From a religious rebel to a spiritual seeker, from a bikie's moll to a folksinging star, Rose's fortunes fluctuate wildly. She has relationships along the way, but as usual with relationships of those adrift in society, these come to grief. In the end, Rose battles to return to a 'normal' life for the benefit of her child-a scenario so often 'true to life' in contemporary society.
The exegesis comprises two independent but supportive essays. The first essay is autobiographical, exploring how I came to write a novel about a teenage girl in the 1960s with a drug problem. The second essay focuses on an exploration of the novel's similarities and differences to YA novels and how such literature can help shape a young person's thinking
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Haegert, Sheila Ann. "How does love grow? : attachment processes in older adoptees and foster children as illustrated by fictional stories." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ37343.pdf.
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Németh, Andrea. "Mothers and daughter representations of the adoption triad in contemporary popular and literary fiction theory and original work /." 1997. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/yorku/fullcit?pMQ27368.
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Thesis (M.A.)--York University, 1997. Graduate Programme in Interdisciplinary Studies.<br>Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 180-188). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL:http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/yorku/fullcit?pMQ27368.
Books on the topic "Adopted children – Fiction"
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Controcorrente: Dall'abbandono a un'adozione felice : una sedicenne racconta. Armando, 2010.
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Parks, Mary Anderson. They called me Bunny: A novel. Livingston Press/University of West Alabama, 2006.
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Ferguson, Sam. "Autofiction and the Diary: The Radicalization of Autofiction in Works by Hervé Guibert and Christine Angot." In Palgrave Studies in Life Writing. Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78440-9_14.
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AbstractAutofiction has often been viewed as a hybrid of autobiography and the novel. This chapter argues that a new generation of writers who emerged from the 1990s onward drew heavily on the diary instead of autobiography to develop their own innovative autofictional forms and practices. Whereas some critics have argued that the diary is fundamentally attached to truth and resistant to fiction, Hervé Guibert’s Voyage avec deux enfants (“Journey with Two Children,” 1982) and Christine Angot’s Léonore, toujours (“Léonore, Always,” 1993) provide two examples of experimental writing projects where the diary provides the means for new modalities of truth and fiction, allowing the authors to adopt a new relation to their writing and the real world.
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Harris, Paul L. "Do children live in a fantasy world?" In Child Psychology in Twelve Questions. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192866509.003.0004.
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Abstract Freud and Piaget both adopted a negative stance toward young children’s early pretend play, implying that it is an escape from reality that is gradually suppressed as they become more rational and objective. However, toddlers use their knowledge of reality to make sense of what is happening in a make-believe world, realizing that it mostly obeys the same causal laws as the real world. Indeed, young children often think about what might have happened not in an escapist manner but in order to assess how an outcome was caused and how might it have been prevented, or how a transgressor deviated from what he or she should have done. In addition, children acknowledge the fantasy–reality distinction even if—like adults—they can be emotionally engaged by pretend and fictional episodes that they know to be merely fictional.
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ZÁRATE, Julio. "El testimonio y su potencial ficcional." In Ecritures de non fiction en Amérique latine. Editions des archives contemporaines, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.17184/eac.4895.
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El presente artículo propone un estudio sobre Los niños perdidos (2016), de la escritora mexicana Valeria Luiselli, un ensayo sobre la situación de los menores centroamericanos que cruzan de manera ilegal la frontera estadounidense. En un primer momento, se estudiará la función del testimonio según las perspectivas que adopta la autora –escribir y traducir el testimonio, ser testigo. Posteriormente, se analizarán algunas características propias del ensayo, lo que permitirá subrayar, en este caso, el vínculo entre la no-ficción y la ficción como parte de un mismo proceso creativo. La no-ficción aparece como fuente de material documental y como reflejo de una experiencia vital, estos elementos constituyen el germen del proceso que da paso a la ficción y se materializa con la publicación de la novela de Luiselli, Lost Children Archives o Desierto sonoro (2019).